Rosh Hashanah 5766

Darn, someone else beat me to my annual greeting בעיברית



Have a shanah tovah all y'all!

Uh, what is this "Rosh HaShanah" thing?

I don't think we have that holiday where I live.

Actually, between Rosh HaShanah, Succot (7 days long), Yom Kippur, and Simchat Torah, Israel will be closed for the month of October.

It will re-open in November in time for our Meet. (Shameless plug here: It is more than just a Meet -- it is a Meet plus a series of guided tours of the country.)

May you be enscribed in the Book of Life for a good year!

But Dovster, aren't these the holidays you're supposed go to the beach for?

(BTW - your inquiry sounds a lot like the, um, simple son from another one of our holidays... )

But seriously, there's nothing like going to J-Town for Yom K to watch the kids ride their bikes through the empty streets right??

You know, apirchik, I've never spent יום כיפור around T.A., is it anything like that? I've always assumed not, since everyone I know would probably still drive...? Anyway...

!!שנה טובה מאוד לכלכם

In Tel Aviv, like elsewhere in Israel, nobody drives on Yom Kippur and the streets are full with people and kids on bikes and rollerblades or just walking.

Spending Yom Kippur in Eilat is an experience as there you will sometimes see people who drive their cars and the exodus starts about 2 hours before Yom Kippur ends - trying to beat traffic but reach Dimona or Mitzpe Ramon after people ate something . This year it won't be as "bad" since Yom Kippur is on a Thursday - creating a very long weekend.

I'm not apirchik, but I have been in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur and there are very few cars -- if any-- on the roads. Children do, indeed, enjoy riding their bicycles on the main streets there.

In fact, I live near an Arab village in the Galilee and have been told by friends there that most Israeli Arabs also do not drive on Yom Kippur -- simply as a matter of showing respect for the holiday.

One year, I had no choice in the matter -- I had to take somebody to the hospital in Safed (about 20 kilometers away) and did not see a single car until I was very close to the hospital.

Shana Tovah from down unda!

goodo

L'Shanah Tovah fron dan1431

Not only very very few cars. But as pertains to us all here at FT. TLV is CLOSED DOWN no flights in or out for over 24 Hours. Israel closes its AirSpace the only time it does that, Dont know of any other Country that does something like that.

I was over there for 1 YK when around 2pm on Yom Kippur eve a call came in from Brussels that I think it was a kidney was in hand for a patient who was next online who was in Israel (A young girl if I remember correctly). Well no one is to be found anywhere working, Yet everything was done so as to get the Already Closed AirSpace open and contollers to BG so as to enable a Private Jet to fly out with the girl to Brussels where she was able to have the transplant with the Blessings of the Chief Rabbis at that. Since Preservation of Life is #1.

Yes a Shana Tova to 1 and ALL

Happy and Healthy to all!

My schedule for the next two days:

Currently at work

2:45pm flight ORD-SEA

Land at 5:07pm

Drive directly to shul for 6pm start.

Shul 6pm-8pm

EAT DINNER

Shul all day Tuesday.

Redeye home Tuesday night SEA-ORD to be at work Wednesday morning.

SHANA TOVA!!

And from here in Sunny Southern Cal a happy and prosperous year to all. Shana Tova....

So you're going to SEA for Rosh Hash? I don't get it.

it's a time to be w/family. when i still lived in bos and with my folks in sf, i would do the same thing. noon flight bos-sfo and red-eye back to bos the next night.

OY!

It's best to be with family and/or friends!

I don't know how the weather is elsewhere, but we are going to have beeeeeeeeeautiful weather for those of us here in NY who will be walking (for me 2.5 miles each way) to shul!

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